St Martin’s Creative Writing is Wild ‘n’ Free

8th July 2014 – News

Nine boys at St. Martin’s School, Northwood were winners in the Paws n Claws competition. Their wild animals short stories were selected to be published in an anthology, Wild n Free Forever. This will be released in November 2014 and it will raise money for the Born Free Foundation.

In the Y5/6 category were: Adam Amrani, Survival Beyond Belief; Sophien Amrani, Life is Different in the Murky Depths of the Sea; Thomas Cumming, Platypus; and Vivek Nair,The Lethal Royal Bengal Tiger.

The competition was judged by the writers Kate Tenbeth, Sally Spedding and the TV presenter Michaela Strachan.

Vivek Nair in Year 6 said, “When I got the results I was totally stunned. I never expected to get this far in a competition in my life!”

Thomas Cumming commented, “I felt great about winning the competition! I based my story on a platypus – one of my favourite creatures. I love them as they seem like a mythical creature, with the body of a beaver and a head of a poisonous duck.”